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Sept. 8  9

Mrs. J.S. Lowell

Dear Madam: 

Yours of Aug 12. has not been replied to.  I have just returned from my journey.  The A.M.A. might be glad to be rid of the expense of its advanced school in Norfolk & resign the building, which is the best and only suitable one.  If they will do so, that is the best place although there will be found very little material there for a Normal School, as it is a prosperous and money making place, and the children go to making money as soon as they can. 

The City of Petersburg has undertaken in good faith, to educate all its children.  I think the City would feel that it was an imputation for outsiders to come in, after they had done their duty faithfully one year without the aid of the Societies and establish a school purporting to be higher than theirs.  And really it would be hard to match their best school.